Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

SonicWall has released a security patch to address the zero-day flaw actively exploited in attacks against the SMA 100 series appliances. SonicWall this week released firmware updates (version 10.2.0.5-29sv) 29sv) to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

CyberPower is a prominent supplier of data center hardware and infrastructure solutions, with a specific focus on cutting-edge power protection technologies and effective power management systems. CVE-2023-3266: Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard (Auth Bypass; CVSS 7.5) CVE-2023-3261: Buffer Overflow (DOS; CVSS 7.5)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

. “Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems. Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

. “EOL models may lack computational capabilities, be short on operational memory, be unable to receive up-to-date component drivers, or possess other technical constraints or deprecated technology,” states the Taiwanese vendor.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In essence, it is a view of the application and its environment through the lens of security. Threat modeling can be applied to a wide range of things, including software, applications, systems, networks, distributed systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and business processes. Deploy malicious firmware. Frameworks 2.1.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

I wrote an article recently on how to secure your home network in three different tiers of protection. In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Keep your firmware and software updated.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For anyone interested in Internet infrastructure, we encourage you to read it, that’s a well-written blog post right there, waiting for you. the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange. sponsored by Accuris Technologies Ltd. the University of Science and Technology of China , and thanks to Keyu Tao. Canada : mirror.accuris.ca

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2021

The vendor released security updates for all these devices and urges customers to update their installs, it also released mitigations to address the flaws. “GE strongly recommends users with impacted firmware versions update their UR devices to UR firmware Version 8.10, or greater to resolve these vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. In Silicon Valley, the initial technology seeds were planted in World War II, when the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

In March 2021, government experts observed state sponsored hackers scanning the internet for servers vulnerable to the above flaws, the attackers were probing systems on ports 4443, 8443, and 10443. Attackers were exploiting the flaw in the attempt to access multiple government, commercial, and technology services networks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

In early March, Orange confirmed that “nearly 9,000 subscribers” of a satellite internet service provided by its subsidiary Nordnet in France were offline following a “cyber event” that took place on February 24 at Viasat, the US giant satellite operator that provides services to the European carriers. Not only cyber attacks. 15, 2021, U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The hardware of the terminals is equipped with Shenzen technology, while the firmware is based on BusyBox Linux Debian. . Automatic updates are available via Wi-Fi and can be installed by setting IoT radio devices back to factory settings and downloading the latest firmware version. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

. “The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat actor known to security researchers as Sandworm, which the U.S. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Below are the mitigations provided in the alert: Install updates for operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released. Implement and enforce multi-layer network segmentation with the most critical communications and data resting on the most secure and reliable layer.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published its Smart Cities (connected places) guidance for UK local authorities. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

IT Resource Asset List [As per the Asset Management Policy,] the asset list of the organization should cover all systems, software, firmware and devices of the organization. Broader is always better to control risks, but can be more costly.] Vulnerability Management Policy & Procedure A. Appendix I. Manual or automatic update?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Beyond the expected, we must also keep watch for the unpleasant surprises that can severely disrupt the security, trust, and capabilities of our digital world. Research efforts will also scale across applications, operating systems, firmware, and hardware. In 2024: 1. Supply chain types of attacks will be coveted the most.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Does it lay out the technologies, plus the frequencies and types of backup, in some detail? Software, data, metadata and configuration items tucked away in RAM, in firmware, on computer chips and tapes and floppy disks and DVDs. A Web-based business without Internet access is like hardware without software.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Garbelini , Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and Chundong Wang from the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The issue initially causes denial of service ( DoS ), but “attackers could reverse engineer products firmware to possibly leverage remote execution,” the researchers say. The group was composed of researchers Matheus E.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

More specifically, their three top concerns were that there would be an increase in attacks associated with Internet of Things (IoT) networks, that the 5G network would create a wider attack surface and that 5G hardware and firmware would lack security by design. Planning how to conquer them now helps enterprises get prepared.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Firmware attacks: Attackers target vulnerabilities in the simplified software that runs computer hard drives, printers, medical devices, and other Internet of Things (IoT) or operational technology (OT) devices to gain unauthorized access, control the devices, or use them as a launching pad for other attacks.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

From the 1960’s to 2000 infusion pumps were mostly electromechanical devices with some embedded electronics, but the turn of the century delivered “smarter” devices with better safety mechanisms and the possibility to program them, which slowly opened the door to information security challenges.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. Physical war.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As Stuart Brand said back in 1984 “information wants to be free.” ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? To change your tire, they could use technology to enforce that that business model. You know things, things can really go sideways for us.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As Stuart Brand said back in 1984 “information wants to be free.” ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? To change your tire, they could use technology to enforce that that business model. You know things, things can really go sideways for us.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

I kind of felt like it was giving back a bit to the community that I had kind of taken a lot from like when I was growing up by being IRC channels, and I had found the internet, all this information that was available. It was all this discovery on the internet that brought me to it. You know, in that job. Then you go up.

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